Impact of social discomfort and academic self-doubt at high performance levels
Sprache des Vortragstitels:
Englisch
Original Tagungtitel:
8th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
In this contribution we present results of a recent study (Kronberger,
N.; Horwath, I. 2013; Horwath, Kronberger & Appel
2014) adressing the relationship between intellectual performance
and persistence for men and women in an environment
in which women represent a numerical minority and
where they are confronted with a stereotype of inferior competence.
It is well documented that such threatening environments
can impact intellectual performance via ?stereotype
threat? (Steele 1997), but little is known on how performance
relates to persistence in such environments. Repeated poor
performance will be a frustrating experience, increasing a
student?s tendency to escape the field. What happens, however,
if a woman excels in a male dominated field? Surely, one
might argue, threat is overcome and she will be as likely to
persist in the domain as a man. But, is this the case?